Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-17
SORGHUM SUGAR.
The Probabilities OF an American Sugar
IndHstry-The Practical Preduc-
ton Of Sorghum Sugar.
What Kansas is Doing, Texas Gan and
Should Do-Let For. Worth ses
the Ball in Motion.
Chicago Journal of Commerce.

! 1t is not strange that tho complete sue
cess Of the diffusion process of obtaining
sugar from sorghum st Fort Scott, des
pite the criminal efforts Ct the Depart
ment of Agriculture to prevent it, should
have almost turned the heads Of those
most nearly interested. This success hzs
! given unusual enthusiasm and encourage
| ment to those striving for an honest
effort with southern cane soon to be made
st Governor Warmoush's plantation
Whatever the result in Louisiana the
| facts ere demonstTa ed and il not success
full in LouisiaDa 1t will be from the
incompeteDcy of Pref. Wiley, chemist Of
the Department of Agriculture, who has
thus far shown himself Crininslly incom-
| petent and determined that diffusion
should not be success.
| The great interest in the new exoeri-
ments is shown by the amount Of CON-
ment given by the southern papers and
tie fact that "Mr. bod left HavaDa Sep
! tember p, as representative of La Nuevs
| Era ard the Diario de Ia Marina TO wit
ness the diffusion experiments at Mag
nolis"
There will also be other Cuban dele
gates at the experiments, as the follow.
J Ing item from the Havana Weekly Reporl
will show:
"The board CT planters have agreed to
appoint committee composed Of Seniors
! Adolfo Munez del Monte and Miguel Men
dozs, planters, and Meesrs. Henry Alex
ander, planter and engineer, to go to
Louisiana and attend the experiments
with the diffusion process on Estate Mag,
nolia, for account Of the United States
government, and report to the board the
| result of their observations"
A New Orleans paper states that "ast
week sample of the sorghum sugsr was
sent from Fort Scott to the New O!leaus
Sugar Exchange for the purpose of ascer-
tanning it's value in our market. To do SO
practically, offers for ten barrel lot We're
solicited. MessIs Zuherbfer & Bahan
Immediately authorized bid OF cents
per pound delivered here, which estab-
lishes the value beyond question"
Another Louisiana paper states that
"the iermers have cultivated sorghum
rather extensively this year, and they
say the yield Of syrup has been very sat.
isfactory, and they are convinced the crop
is much more profitable than cotton.
When properly made the syrup is excel
lent, and commands very good price
No IF >rs has been made to produce
sugar from it. OF course, more or less
sorghum has been produced il this coun-
try for years, but not heretofore as ex-
tensively in this parish, we think, as it
has been this year"
The following Is taken from the SPECIAL
correspondence of the New Orleans
Times Democrat from Fort Scott, Sep
temter 81:
The day before leaving Louisiana read
the telcgraphic report, published in the
Times Democrat, of the recent results in
manufacturing sugar from sorghum in
Kansas.
IN view Of the Disappointing failure in
last years experiments at this pOiD', there
were some who lacked faith in the figures
given, and were very skeptiCai as 10 the
statements OF the final success claimed TO
be achieved. But cOIversed with sew
erAl leading sugar planters OF Louisiana,
among them one of our Congressman, who
seemed to be impressed with the ca
that there was more ia the business than
the more doubling ones were inclined
to give 1t credit for, and
that Kansas had developed a
new industry, and, as one OF its in
cidentsl effects, Louisiana might look to
this great and growing western state, aud
the states between the Mississippi river
and the Rocky mountains, from Iowa, Or
even Minnesota, to the Gulf Of Mexico,
for political alliance in national legisla-
ton, to the effect that the government
revenues oe obtained from tariff duties
affording incidental protection to the
LEADING American industries
AnotheB question involved, conditional
on the success of the Sugar l, dustry IN
Kansas, which is
A PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED
by the cane planters of Louisiana
and Texas, is as to whether sorghum pro-
duction at home would not serve to
greatly lepgthen the sugar manufacturing
eeaeon Ia these states2
The harvesting season in our southern
cane region last only during sixty or
seventy dayg-from the middle OF October
to the middle or end OF December. The
three best sugar-making varieties of
sorghum in this state-Link's Hybrid, the
Orange and the Amber-reach msturiJy
from ninety to 100 days after the planting
of the seed.
II this rule apply to the Gulf states, sue
SOS6lfC UO aUC W IlpODt
along at Intervals, from the end Of June
or the beginning of July up to the middle
of October, wien the factories could turn
their attention to cane sugar. ALI Of q
cane sugar manufactory plant, except the
mill, Is applicable to manipulating sor-
ghum. But diffusion battery is neces-
sary for the perfect extraction of the lat
ter plants juices.
Thus the manufacturing season could
be prolonged to six months, an import.
ant item when it Is taken into consider
sJion that the enormous amount of
capital invested in Louisiana sugar ma
chinery is lying idle for about ten months
In every year.
Accompanying Colonel E. II, Cunning
ham, the leading sugar planter of Texas.
Left Houston On the night of the 25sh
inst, and arrived at Fort Scott early
this morning. Colonel Cunningham, who
has laRee manufacturing establishment,
or central factory, for cane, equipped with
machinery, principally manutac ured in
New Orleans, mace this special visit with
view to examining the methods of
KANSAS SORGHUM SUGAR MANUFACTURES,
to determine as to whether it would be
profitable TO cultivate and manufacture
sorghum as an auxiliary 10 his extensive
cane crop.